{"id":3366,"date":"2019-06-26T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2020-04-18T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:10:30","slug":"wayne-thiebauds-new-clown-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Thiebaud’s Clown Series: Hour of the Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"

About four years ago, Wayne Thiebaud, the nonagenarian painter best known for his still lifes and landscapes, began to depict what he calls\u00a0\u201cclown memories.\u201d These works in progress presently include approximately fifty paintings, twenty drawings, and six etchings. They are a response to the outside world, as well as another new segment in Thiebaud\u2019s decades-long career as a painter. The New Criterion just published my article<\/a> on the series, giving its readers an exclusive peek at several of the works in it.<\/p>\n

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“Ancient Romans believed in the \u201chour of the wolf\u201d\u2014a point on the cusp of night and dawn, when demons had the upper hand. In modern times, the concept of this magic hour was re-introduced by Ingmar Bergman\u2019s 1968 horror movie, The Hour of the Wolf<\/i>, which told a story of a painter disturbed by visions. Since then, the phrase has also been used to describe a more generic state of psychological urgency, where the only option is to face reality and to reflect on it, unsettling as it may be. The twentieth century had its share of lupine hours, but in its current incarnation, the demonic is farcical rather than sinister. As I have mentioned elsewhere<\/a>, today\u2019s evil is comparatively frivolous, and its way to hearts and minds lies through distraction and trivia. Today, it seems, the Huxleyan entertainment utopia is more relevant than the Orwellian surveillance dystopia. The clown has replaced the wolf.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About four years ago, Wayne Thiebaud, the nonagenarian painter best known for his still lifes and landscapes, began to depict what he calls\u00a0\u201cclown memories.\u201d These works in progress presently include approximately fifty paintings, twenty drawings, and six etchings. 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